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Postby bdring » Fri Jun 08, 2012 7:05 pm

I have gone to the Detroit Maker Faire twice and the San Mateo one once. San Mateo was great, but it was missing my favorite event...Power Wheels Racing.

Souped up electric children's cars race for fame and.....well just fame I guess. It is a lot of fun to watch and really shows the maker spirit.

It is run by several local Chicago people and Pumping Station One folk. They are doing a fund raiser to cover this years races and a bunch of improvements.

http://www.indiegogo.com/savepowerwheelracing

Show your support of the Maker Spirit and donate!

My favorite moment was this guy's launch off the starting line. The trike came down and snapped the fork right off. Some of the other drivers were laughing so hard they could barely drive.

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Re: Power Wheels Racing

Postby BotDoc » Fri Jun 08, 2012 8:02 pm

Just FYI. That's Tom Gralewicz from the Milwaukee Makerspace http://milwaukeemakerspace.org/.
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Re: Power Wheels Racing

Postby bdring » Fri Jun 08, 2012 8:11 pm

They have an awesome MakerSpace BTW.

They have a great bio on that machine on the web site. Appearently snapping in half was only about one of a half dozen ways that failed before eventually winning the drag race portion.

http://powerracingseries.org/teams/
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Jeremy On Power Wheels Racing

Postby bdring » Wed Jun 13, 2012 3:00 pm

@JeremyBP, owner of production ORD Bot #1 and general fabrication wizard is featured in this great video.

http://vimeo.com/43936083

Donate now...save world!

http://www.indiegogo.com/savepowerwheelracing

I donated a second time after seeing the video.
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